MYIOBIUS. 215 



Key to the Species. 



A. Rump sulphur-yellow 31. harhatus, p. 215. 



B. Kump coffee-brown. 



a. Larger; wing more than 65 mm., tail 



more than 60 mm M. roraimce, p. 216. 



5. Smaller ; wing less than 65 mm., tail less 



than 60 mm 3L fasciatus, p. 217. 



C. Eump rufous M. erytlirurus, p. 218. 



490. Myiobius barbatus. 



Whiskered Flycatcher. 



Iluscicapa Ijarhata Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 933, 1789 (Cayenne). 

 Myiohius barhatus Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 701, 1848 ; Salvin, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 297 (Roraima, 3500 ft., Merume Mts., Camacusa, 



River Atapurau, Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 199, 1888 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Roraima, River Atapurow); 



Braboui-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 296, no. 3017, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, back, and upper wing-coverts dark green 

 with a yellow crest on the middle of the crown, some of the 

 feathers tipped with green ; flight-quills blackish on the inner 

 webs with pale inner edges ; lower back and rump sulphur-yellow 

 like the abdomen and under wing-coverts ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail blackish; throat gre} ish white ; breast dusky-grey; under 

 tail-coverts ochraceous buff; lower surface of flight-quills dark 

 brown with pale inner edges ; lower aspect of tail blackish. " Bill 

 dark brown, base of lower mandible white ; feet pale brown " 

 (Cat. B. Brit. Mu,'^.). 



Total length 120 mm,, exposed culmen 11, wing 70, tail 57, 

 tarsus 17. 



The male described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 November 1906. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 61 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JSei^t. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Jiggs. Undescril)ed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi liiver, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Makauria Biver, Abary River, Berbice 

 River, Aiwye River, Great Falls Domerara River {McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Jloraima, Merume Mountains, Kamakusa, 

 Kamarang River, Bartica {iVhileli/). 



E.vlralindtal J\'aiige. Northern Brazil, Venezuela. 



